Customise the Joomla Admin With Your Logo and Brand

Customize the Joomla Backend with your Brand

By default, the Joomla admin area carries the Joomla logo and brand.

This makes sense for a default Joomla installation, but often you may need to add your customers' branding. After all, your customer may have staff members who know little or nothing about Joomla.

The default administrator template in Joomla 3 is called Isis (insert your own joke here). I'm going to show you how use Isis to re-brand your Joomla admin area.

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Replay of the Hikashop Webinar with Nicolas Claverie

Webinar: Become a Hikashop Master

Here at OSTraining, we're huge fans of Hikashop. We have an in-depth video class on Hikashop and cover it regularly on this blog.

We think Hikashop is the best way to build a Joomla e-commerce store.

We're delighted to have hosted a webinar with Nicolas Claverie, the lead developer of Hikashop. Nicolas showed us to power up our Hikashop sites and get them ready for the holiday season.

Here is a complete replay of the webinar:

The Beginners Guide to Widgetkit from YOOtheme

The Beginners Guide to Widgetkit from YOOtheme

Widgetkit is a very powerful tool provided by the YOOtheme template club.

Actually Widgetkit is not just one tool: it provides a whole set of extensions, bundled into one.

Widgetkit provides photo galleries, slideshows, maps, accordions and much more in one single extension.

Widgetkit 2 was released in January 2015 and is the successor to the original Widgetkit extension, released back in early 2012.

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How to Print the User Group in Joomla with PHP

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One of our members asked how to display the user group in the Joomla frontend by using PHP.

In this short tutorial, we'll share the snippet that solves the request.

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Create a Custom Joomla 404 Page with 404 Status Code

joomla custom 404

Our first 404 tutorial was helpful to a lot of people. However, some users also wanted the status code of the page to be a 404.

This tutorial will show you how to create a custom 404 page with a 404 status code in Joomla. Let's get started...

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Add a New Module Position to a Joomla Template

Add a New Module Position in a Joomla Template

Do you want a new module position in your Joomla template?

Creating new positions involves editing two files: index.php and templateDetails.xml.

In this tutorial, I'm going to show you to create a custom module position for almost any template.

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Exclude Files, Folders and Database Tables from Akeeba Backup

Exclude Files and Folders from Akeeba BackupSometimes you might have folders and files that you want to exclude from backups. Examples might be folders that aren't updated often or that contain really large files.

In this video, Ron will show you how to exclude folders and files from AkeebaBackup. You'll also learn how to exclude database tables.

This video is taken from the complete Akeeba Backup class which is available to Joomlashack members.

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How to Find Any Language Constant in Joomla

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Have you had problems customizing or translating the text on your Joomla site?

This tutorial is for those cases when you can't find the language constant, which are the key for language overrides.

Our previous tutorial explains how you can translate or customize language strings. This tutorial will explain what to do if that tutorial isn't enough.

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Webinar: Become a Hikashop Master

Webinar: Become a Hikashop Master

Here at OSTraining, we're huge fans of Hikashop. We have an in-depth video class on Hikashop and cover it regularly on this blog.

We think Hikashop is the best way to build a Joomla e-commerce store.

We're delighted to be hosting a webinar with Nicolas Claverie, the lead developer of Hikashop. Nicolas is going to show you how to power up your Hikashop site and get it ready for the holiday season.

Update: click here to see the webinar recording.

Read more: Webinar: Become a Hikashop Master

Joomla 3.5 Will Have Drag-and-Drop Image Adding

Joomla 3.5 Will Have Drag-and-Drop Image Adding

Joomla 3.5 is due for release early this year.

It has a really nice new usability improvement: drag-and-drop image adding. You can pick up any image from your desktop and drop it directly into your content. This is a standard feature in blogging platforms these days, so it's good to see Joomla keeping up.

Here's how to add an image with this new feature ...

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